Senate Unanimously Passes Anti-Camcorder Bill

jamonterrell writes "The US Senate just unanimously passed a bill allowing the criminal prosecution of recording movies with a camcorder in theatres. Victims of the new bill would face 3 years in prison on first offense (5 if it was done for profit), repeat offenders would get 10 years. As a side note, it will cost taxpayers an additional 5 million dollars per year through 2009 for enforcement." Several states have made recording in theaters a crime, although none of them have penalties nearly as harsh as this Senate bill.

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Tell Me About It

[Mark_MF-WN]

Tell me about it. Gun nuts always yammer about the second amendment protecting the first, but when was the last time a gun owner defended their civil liberties? The NRA can rot in hell -- they should have executed Bill Clinton for the DMCA, and George Bush for the Patriot Act. You know why libertarians don't care about the second amendment? Because gun nuts don't care about the first amendment, and stomp on the first amendment every chance they get.

Re:Still no cure for cancer

[mi]

I'll overstuff this troll: Not on fixing the economy Works fine, thank you very much not on getting us out of a ficticious war Seems like we are successfully getting out of the justly waged and handsomely won war in Iraq, or did you mean something else? not on improving healthcare or our general way of life I dread the thought of the Government taking interest in affecting my way of life:

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

If anything makes a person more of a sheeple, it is by delegating her/his personal concerns for anything personally achievable to the Government, because, to quote the same source:

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

But making the world safe for movie-goers and **AA members alike. Although practice targeted endangers honest Commerce of film-making, I'm not too happy with this legislation either. But your objections to it hold no water.